{"id":358578,"date":"2025-12-20T23:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358578\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:22:04","slug":"lions-place-all-pro-safety-kerby-joseph-on-ir-with-nagging-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358578\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions place All-Pro safety Kerby Joseph on IR with nagging knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DETROIT (AP) \u2014 The Detroit Lions put All-Pro safety Kerby Joseph on injured reserve Saturday, ending hope he could come back from a knee injury that limited him to six games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions (8-6) made the move a day before hosting the AFC North-leading Pittsburgh Steelers (8-6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detroit also activated guard Christian Mahogany from the injured list and elevated offensive lineman Kingsley Eguakun and tight end Giovanni Ricci from the practice squad to potentially play against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mahogany is one of four offensive linemen the Lions listed as questionable with injuries, along with Graham Glasgow, Taylor Decker and Trystan Colon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions gave Joseph a four-year contract worth $86 million in April that makes him one of the NFL\u2019s highest-paid safeties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joseph was rewarded with the deal after leading the league with nine interceptions last season, helping Detroit win a franchise-record 15 games and a second straight NFC North title. He finished sixth in voting for AP Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had four interceptions in 2023, tied for seventh in the NFL, and four picks as a rookie after Detroit drafted him in the third round, No. 97 overall, out of Illinois in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joseph had three interceptions in six games this season to increase his career total to 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 The Detroit Lions put All-Pro safety Kerby Joseph on injured reserve Saturday, ending hope he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}